Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Frank Charles Park still remains in bad shape


  Hi Crappy, it was three years ago when I sent you an expose on Frank Charles Park and the lousy jog the National Park Service(NPS} does there . I also wrote to NPS and the local papers and contacted the local politicians about the conditions there.Well nothing has changed, we see the same dead trees and dead branches directly above where people walk and sit. The bathroom only takes one man and one woman at a time in a park that has a playground, tennis courts, ball fields, picnic tables and a beach. The beach accumulates trash everyday from the tides and from some beach goers and needs to be cleaned on a regular basis. The beach has serious erosion and picnic tables there are unusable.
 

 
 
 
  Why have these conditions been allowed to continue for so long? The NPS says they are underfunded and understaffed. The politicians say they know there are problems and will see what they can do. Why can't obvious safety problems like dead trees be at least addressed? If someone is killed or injured and sues for millions of dollars where is the money going to come from ,us the people who pay taxes. Howard Beach is a nice community and I'm sure people pay plenty of taxes and this is New York the biggest city in the USA so why are we not getting treated better by our government?
 
 





































  
  The National Park Service has shown they cannot operate a community park at the standards the NYC Parks can and should turn over control of the park to the city.NYC Parks are usually well maintained and they are have more experience with operating a park and have created many beautiful parks within the city.

 Hope it doesn't take someone dying before something is done but sadly that seems to be.

8 comments:

warp10 said...

The NYC Parks Department is also severely underfunded (or mismanaged.) There is a months-long backlog of dead standing street trees waiting to be removed, as well a years-long backlog of uprooted sidewalks waiting to be replaced under their "Trees & Sidewalks" program.

Also, after winter storms, they do not clear the sidewalks adjacent to their properties of snow and ice in a timely manner.

Anonymous said...

The NYC Parks Department only cares about three parks, Central Park, Prospect Park & Battery Park. Every other park or playground is the residents problem to maintain and keep clean.

Anonymous said...

Here is an excellent suggestion. Contact Marcia Kramer at WCBS or the I-team at WNBC. When you get the broadcasters working on this story it tends to get Albany's attention. Governor Cuomo is glued to the TV just like Trump.

JQ LLC said...

Ms. Kramer usually works the city and politician beat.

Reena Roy might be better. She usually covers Queens and recently did the Forest Park dumping scandal. She also did a report on the Lefferts Blvd train station I covered for months on my blog Impunity City.

Anonymous said...

Maybe if the community could get a corporate sponsor, the Feds would sell it free enterprise. U.S. government owns too much property in country as it is.

Anonymous said...

Maybe Monica morales if she werent stuck on the NYCHA beat. I do agree that once this issue is al over the TV and social media they will be forced to address it. GOOD LUCK !!

Anonymous said...

That’s Addabos territory. It’s been his and his father’s for nearly 40 years. What gives???

Anonymous said...

Will Mr F C Park be hospitalized?